Coronary arteritis as a cause of sudden cardiac death in a young girl

Paliwal, Purnima; Jain, Swasti; Ahuja, Arvind; Mittal, Sachin; Chauhan, D

doi:10.4322/acr.2021.310

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“…Disease extension to the heart often occurs through hematogenous seeding from the lungs or by lymphatic spread. Autopsy findings from a case with sudden cardiac death showed variable features in both right and left coronary arteries, including luminal narrowing, dense transmural lymphohistiocytic infiltrates, focal necrosis, poorly-defined histiocytic aggregates, and occasional Langhans cells 68 . Vasculitis associated with invasive fungal infections is rare, occurring mainly in immunocompromised or specific populations, such as intravenous drug users or inhabitants from countries with endemic mycoses.…”

Section: Coronary Arteritismentioning

confidence: 96%

Cardiovascular pathology in vasculitis

De Gaspari,

Ascione,

Baldovini

et al. 2024

Pathologica

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Summary Vasculitides are diseases that can affect any vessel. When cardiac or aortic involvement is present, the prognosis can worsen significantly. Pathological assessment often plays a key role in reaching a definite diagnosis of cardiac or aortic vasculitis, particularly when the clinical evidence of a systemic inflammatory disease is missing. The following review will focus on the main histopathological findings of cardiac and aortic vasculitides.

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Section: Coronary Arteritismentioning

confidence: 96%

Cardiovascular pathology in vasculitis

De Gaspari,

Ascione,

Baldovini

et al. 2024

Pathologica

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“…TB is a major global health issue, with an estimated 1.6 million deaths in 2021 [5]. The risk of developing TB is higher in the first 12-18 months following the infection, and several medical conditions such as HIV infection, silicosis and exposure to silica dust, malnutrition and protein imbalance, and treatment with immunosuppressive drugs [6], can increase the risk of TB. It is particularly severe among people with HIV and is a leading cause of death from an infectious agent [3].…”

Section: Epidemiology Of Tbmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If left untreated, TB can lead to complications with a mortality rate exceeding 50% [9]. The literature has documented rare cases of sudden death resulting from TB-related complications such as pericarditis, pneumothorax, myocarditis, and coronary arteritis [6,[10][11][12]. In these cases, the patient had not received treatment, and TB was only discovered post-mortem during an autopsy.…”

Section: Identification Of Tbmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the literature, BAE is an effective and safe treatment option for the treatment of hemoptysis in TB patients [2,3,6,11,18]. From a forensic point of view, the hemorrhage bleeding, with hemoptysis, may mimic severe injury, and the death scene might look suspicious for a possible accident or crime since there is usually a lot of blood.…”

Section: Figure 2: Physiopathology Of Hemoptysis In Mycobacterium Tub...mentioning

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Sudden Death of a Young Man Due to Massive Haemoptysis Associated With Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Rare Case

Sacco,

Gualtieri,

Verrina

et al. 2023

Cureus

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Asphyxia includes a large number of possible causes and mechanisms, such as infectious diseases of the lungs. Among these, tuberculosis (TB) is one of the main infectious causes of death worldwide. The burden of TB is very high, by virtue of antibiotic resistance and the risk of other concomitant infections, such as HIV. A major problem is related to the omitted diagnosis of TB infection which, in some cases, may remain completely unknown to the patient, with a significant increase in mortality and morbidity risk. There has been a decrease in the reported cases of sudden death due to TB, especially that associated with hemoptysis and aspiration of blood. In this report, we describe a case of sudden death that occurred in a young male in the workplace, under unclear circumstances. The autopsy detected acute asphyxia due to a massive pulmonary hemorrhage in the individual, who was apparently suffering from TB. The autopsy proved to be essential for understanding the cause of death and investigating the adequacy of the health surveillance measures carried out on the individual.

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Tuberculous Coronary Arteritis and Sudden Cardiac Death

Vaideeswar

Amonkar

2022

Tropical Cardiovascular Pathology

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Coronary arteritis as a cause of sudden cardiac death in a young girl

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Cardiovascular pathology in vasculitis

Cardiovascular pathology in vasculitis

Sudden Death of a Young Man Due to Massive Haemoptysis Associated With Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Rare Case

Tuberculous Coronary Arteritis and Sudden Cardiac Death

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